“With stage, you feel completely like you're just in a bubble. I love not being able to see anything. I love coming out and I can't see anything because the lights are so bright and it's pitch black. That's ideal for me, that's when I have the best time.” FeelsI CanLightAbleBlackStageLike YouIdealsComing OutBubblesBest TimesPitch Black Author:Bill Nighy
“Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me.” PeopleMenNeedsHas BeensHelpingMightAbleOpportunityFeltBlackSupportGraceSpecialPositionLike YouEqualDegreesEmpathyConnectionsPrisonShoesDuesObligationLeagueSatScoreMight Have BeenEqual RightsGrace Of GodUnemployedIvyIvy LeagueSat ScoresGpa Author:Barack Obama
“You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.” IfsKnowsStillsWisdomWaitingBlackLeadershipWorkRolesHistoryPolicyLike YouEqualModelsFemaleIndividualityIdeologyRole ModelsSovietForeign PolicyEqual RightsSpecialists Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.” PeopleWayFeelsI CanPoliticalEnergyBlackWaterDarkWalksToo MuchCrazyLike YouStuckEngagedDedicatedVoidDepressingQualifiedPolitical SystemsCrazy ThingsTreadingVery DepressingTreading Water Author:Thom Yorke
“Most rappers are black men. If you're a black man, you owe something to the community that you came from. If you're rapping about the community that you came from, and you're romanticizing parts of it for the entertainment of people who don't look like you, you certainly owe something to the community.” PeopleIfsMenLooksBlackCommunityLike YouEntertainmentRapRapper Author:Killer Mike
“I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.” PeopleKnowsMenHelpingBlackActingSupportLike YouMen And WomenTiredHelping Each Other Author:Bell Hooks
“As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.” PeopleBelieveStillsRealProblemAbleBlackPresidentWhiteIssuesImagineLike YouRacismBlack PeopleNo ProblemBetter OffReal Problems Author:Darryl Pinckney
“[Apostol Paul's] views were translated as, "Your rule is to be kind to black people; you don't beat them." It's very much the way we treated women in the 14th and 15th centuries. A woman was not human, and you should be kind to your wife like you are to all dumb animals. That was the mentality.” PeopleWayShouldHumansKindBlackAnimalViewsWifeCenturyLike YouBeatsTreatedDumbBe KindBlack PeopleMentality Author:John Shelby Spong
“My mom [comes] to see my shows because she's so proud, but I'm talking about losing my virginity, my ex-wife and our sexual problems, and she's sitting in the front row smiling. I just go, "Mom, you can't sit in the front row, you can't smile. You have to go way in the back and dress in black. If I see you it's like you're breaking in when I'm having sex with my wife. It's just wrong."” IfsWayShowsProblemSexBlackTalkingWifeFrontsLike YouMomProudLosingSittingDressesMy MomMy WifeExesVirginityHaving SexEx Wife Author:John Leguizamo
“For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLittlesLongHappensUsedBlackPiecesMediaStupidColorLike YouPeriodsNewsMassHip HopPopsRapTricksHipsHopsCoveredBlack PeopleCrapBad NewsLong Periods Of TimeRap Music Author:Chuck D
“I don't know if it's more acceptable or if black men are more comfortable. Black men certainly are more comfortable with it. I don't know that society, like white society loves it or black women. When you see a black man with a white woman there is a feeling that you have and I think the feeling is an instinctual feeling of you want her you don't want me. I don't look anything like her, so you don't like. You know what I mean? Something like that. It's a real instinctual primal thing.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenWantLooksMeanRealFeelingsBlackWhiteLike YouComfortableWant MeAcceptableBlack WomenPrimalLike Her Author:Sanaa Lathan
“[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.” PeopleWorldCultureFightingBlackOur LivesLike YouCircumstancesBlack People Author:Denzel Washington
“I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.” PeopleFeelsShowsBlackCan DoLike YouNarrativeRevolutionaryBlack People Author:Viola Davis
“Whatever column you fall in - Christian, gay, straight, Black, White - there is no world where people exist that are exactly like you. No one group of people can righteously rule the world. There will be people who differ in opinion, and even in that difference of opinion, we must respect each other.” PeopleWorldChristianFallBlackDifferencesWhiteOpinionGroupsLike YouGayColumnsBlack WhiteDifferences Of OpinionRespect Each Other Author:T.I.
“Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsChildrenStillsSometimesChoicesJesusBitsBlackChristWhiteWalksTeachForeverThis WorldLike YouJesus ChristHatredOur ChildrenGuiltySeatsClassroomAmazedAnimosityLike YourselfBlack WhiteAccoladesBasic Education Author:Marva Collins
“I had watched an episode of Black Mirror almost exactly a year prior to when I started shooting my episode. I was by myself in New Zealand, and my husband was like, "You have to see this show. It's so incredible."” YearsShowsBlackLike YouHusbandMirrorsIncrediblesShootingMy HusbandEpisodesNew Zealand Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“When I say a girl like me, I bet you think I'm just talking about being fat. How dare you fat-shame me? You think I'm talking about being black? Racist. What makes you think I'm not talking about being smart? What? You don't think a fat, black girl can be smart or something? Fat-shaming racists like you make me sick.” ThinkingGirlBlackLike YouSmartSickDareRacistMake You ThinkBeing SmartBlack Girl Author:Gabourey Sidibe